History of architecture

First published in 1976 Architecture and the Environment is based on the authors very successful Architecture of Children.

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items - such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport - played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "e;global trade"e; in the first millennium CE.

In der Zeit der napoleonischen Kriege vollzog sich in ganz Europa ein grundlegender gesellschaftlicher und politischer Wandel.

Die Frage nach der moralischen Erlaubtheit des Lügens ist ein Dauerthema der praktischen Philosophie.

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.

Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places.

A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space.

An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.

A dopamine hit on every page Marcus du SautoyA sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.

Great European planetary festival in Dresden: a serial killer sends out poison horoscopes.

Extraordinary sites associated with the Bauhaus and modernism can be found throughout Germany-pioneering architecture that has enduringly shaped our understanding of life and work, learning and living.

Die Protagonisten des Buches Camillo Sitte, Otto Wagner, Josef Maria Olbrich, Joseph August Lux, Oskar Strnad und Felix Augenfeld schufen von den späten 1880er Jahren bis 1938 über die Zäsur des Weltkriegs hinaus eine moderne und ortspezifische Architektur.

Con el fin de entender y afrontar los retos actuales de la arquitectura es indispensable revisar su evolución y entenderla desde la óptica contemporánea.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as "e;Frankfurt School"e;.

An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society.

"La elaboración de este libro ha sido motivada, entre otros factores, por los siguientes: inicialmente, por la propia experiencia personal en la SCEE (Sociedad Constructora de Establecimientos Educacionales) durante doce años de trabajo, tiempo en que alcancé a conocer a José Aracena, quien murió en 1971; luego, por un deseo de abordar la vida de Gustavo Mönckeberg, quien fuera el padre de Hernán Mönckeberg Barros (colega arquitecto) que, a su vez, fue presidente de la SCEE durante 1969 y 1970, y puso a mi disposición lo poco que restaba del archivo de su padre; finalmente, por dar a conocer la totalidad de su valiosa producción arquitectónica residencial, civil, educacional, religiosa, funeraria, etc.

Esta obra ofrece un nuevo enfoque de un periodo crucial de la arquitectura del siglo XX.

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education.

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education.

A 100 AÑOS DE LA BAUHAUSCon motivo de las celebraciones mundiales que se realizaran durante este año para festejar dicho acontecimiento, nos orgullecemos en presentarles este libro reedición del editado en 1958 por esta editorial, un valioso documento histórico donde encontraran el pensamiento del fundador de la famosa escuela en varios artículos y conferencias durante sus tres diferentes vidas, como el mismo las llama, la de Alemania donde funda en 1919 la Bauhaus en Dessau, la de Inglaterra durante la segunda guerra y la de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, en la Universidad de Harvard.

Homing the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication.

This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed.

In today's globalized world, every aspect of our lives is affected by global interconnectedness from what we buy to what we eat to what we study - and the study of design history is no exception.

Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania.

Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania.

Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers.

This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux.

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of interior design and interior spaces from 1700 to 1850.

Homing the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication.

Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

Deutschland ist reich an herausragenden Zeugnissen moderner Architektur.

After the Fall explores the many traces of fascism that can be found in the architecture and urban form of Rome from its buildings, monuments and piazze, to its street names and graffiti.

Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society.

A classic account of the villa-from ancient Rome to the twentieth century-by "e;the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture"e; (Architect's Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America.

An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from the acclaimed architectural historianIn The Beginnings of Architecture, Sigfried Giedion examines the architecture of ancient Egypt and Sumer.

This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing.

Authored by two architects, Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980 and 2020, as architecture developed in the Western world and Japan.